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Practical knowledge of heredity is older than the written word but the development of modern genetics dates only from the rediscovery of Mendel’s paper in 1900, 34 years after it was published. During this period Mendel’s work made little impression on biologists but the developments which did occur in biology made for a more ready acceptance of Mendelian theory when de Vries, Correns and Tschermark, probably independently, rescued Mendel’s paper from oblivion.
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Peacocke, A.R., Drysdale, R.B. (1965). Introduction. In: The Molecular Basis of Heredity. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6317-8_1
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